Everything costs something, right?"
As someone who actually enjoyed The Governor's two-episode diversion last season (while still realizing it was the show course-correcting in order to lead back to a legit prison battle), and also as someone who likes Beth, "Slabtown" was a bit of a drag. Not fully. There was some good stuff here. But it definitely was a hard comedown after the cannibal saga. So much so that it had me wondering (almost) the entire time what this new group's sinister secret was. And the truth, when revealed, wasn't really all that dark or exciting considering
what we've already seen on this season.
Not that I want to discourage this series in any way from telling new stories or taking us up and out of our usual comfort/discomfort zone, but this was a lot of suspense with not that much payoff. Perhaps, now that we know that this is to be a two-parter, things will get a bit more intense next week with the inclusion of Carol and Daryl. That was a nice little twist at the end, by the way, to have Carol getting wheeled in - one that may give us some indication as to why she may have wanted to stay in the shadows at the end of last week's episode.
Not that anything completely horrific was happening to the lowest rung of the Atlanta cop crew (unless you were one of the women who awful Officer Gorman would claim as "mine"), but I did think it was interesting once again to deal - even more precisely in fact - with the zompocalypse survivor hierarchy. Something that Father Gabriel made me think about recently, and something that this story directly addressed; with those who were deemed weak being subservient to those who were stronger. In this case, an actual indentured servitude system in place with no true time limit.
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